"What if someone who grokked our culture and understood our tech wrote something? Would it be great, or would it just get bogged down in the techno babble?"
Unfortunately, the latter in Strauss's case.
From the original article - "In this situation, the promiscuous women quickly caught the virus and became a sort of viral clearinghouse, spreading HIV to every man with whom they had contact."
I really am amazing at the commonly portrayed concept that AIDS is 100% communicable. Have there been any studies done to show the actual percentage chance of transmission of the HIV virus from one infected individual to one who isn't? Also, are there different probabilities for different types of sexual activity?
The media makes a lot of issues look like bad science with their hype, whether it be global warming or SARS.
Does anyone know where to get the solid scientific data regarding this issue?
Residents of the South Pacific island of Tanna worship an American "messiah" named John Frum who first appeared to them in the 1930s. According to a village elder quoted in a recent Smithsonian article, John promised to someday return and "he'll bring planeloads and shiploads of cargo to us from America if we pray to him. Radios, TVs, trucks, boats, watches, iceboxes, medicine, Coca-Cola and many other wonderful th
Old mail has arrived.
